Around Here Lately

Hi everybody! We've had a busy week in our family, we celebrated Kevin's birthday, spent some time at a city festival, AND moved into our permanent apartment!!!!

We are so happy to have finally landed in our home, although our ocean shipment with all of our stuff has yet to arrive. It feels so nice to be able to explore our neighborhood and get used to the layout of our new place.

We celebrated Kevin's birthday with gifts on his birthday morning and a special night out for dinner. Kevin is the best to shop for because all he wants is bike stuff, so the kids and I bussed over to the local shop and picked up a few things to help him feel like a local.

 Hey, look at that Swiss biker over there!

We ate dinner at the neatest place. It's an old casino overlooking a park with an amazing view of Lac Leman! Dinner was delicious, but this dessert was crazy, it's a meringue double creme de Gruyere. From what we hear, it's the signature dessert of Gruyere (you know, the place where they make all the cheese), and it is seriously rich! The kind of rich where you immediately have eaters remorse, but can't stop eating it.  We ate it all.

On Saturday we had a fairly easy time settling into the new apartment. Since we have so little it only took a day to grab a few essentials at Ikea and make the move. Quinn was out-of-his-mind excited to sleep in his new bunk bed but when push came to shove he needed to put on a few comfort items to feel comfortable in his new digs. He's been sleeping on the bottom bunk with Anna in a pack-and-play right next to him and they've been having a blast. These two have grown so much closer during the short time we've been here. It makes us so happy!

It continues to be hot but for some reason, after we put Quinn to bed on the first night in the new apartment, he came out of his room sweating but still wearing this little ensemble.  He must have put it on after we put him to bed, b/c no parent would put their child to bed in this gear…two sweatshirts, a hat, and a coat on an 85+ degree night.

We have a few toys, but the kids prefer to play with the kitchen tools. I believe they were playing bath in this picture...

Our apartment is right across the street from a local school which comes in very handy since we don't have a yard. It's easy to pop across the street and run off some energy!

 Last Friday we spent a fun evening at the Festival de la Cite. This is a week long celebration focused mainly in the old part of the city with live music, circus shows, and really neat family activities. We went to an exhibition for kids to learn all about cause and effect. Everything was hands on and it was all very rustic. The kind of stuff that someone would make in their garage for a science project. Anna loved the bubble machine and spent most of her time watching the big kids pump the foot pedals to make bubbles come out of the wooden box.

But, mostly she just liked her ice cream cone!!